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Conservative commentators were stunned and outraged that Oprah Winfrey claimed that there is a level of disrespect for the office [of the president] that occurs and that some of the animosity towards President Obama is driven by race. On her radio show last week, Mission America head Linda Harvey said that Obama is the real anti-black racist, and that he may be the most racist president in US history.
Why, you might ask?
Because he supports legal abortion and gay rights, of course:
https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/harvey-obama-most-racist
Read more: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harvey-obama-most-racist-president-us-history-supporting-abortion-rights-lgbt-equality
JRLeft
(7,010 posts)johnp3907
(3,723 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)It is difficult for me to care about her opinion
tcfrogs
(2,905 posts)rurallib
(62,342 posts)(that is a 6 foot tall invisible rabbit from the play "Harvey"
seems to have inherited Paul Harvey's personality and Harvey the pooka's intelligence.
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)And I'm not even going to read the article.
dballance
(5,756 posts)She's got a couple of professional-looking headshots that are a dead ringer for Betty Bowers.
Unfortunately, she's totally serious - not satire.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Another nobody who makes an outrageous statement to get attention.
ismnotwasm
(41,916 posts)Ugh
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)"After JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, revealed that she always thought of the character Albus Dumbledore as being homosexual, Harvey asked, 'Will we allow our kids to believe it would be perfectly appropriate for the headmaster of any school to be homosexual?'"
I get it now. She thinks it's 1978.
longship
(40,416 posts)Her organization is Mission: America (Safe Wiki link) which has been labelled as an anti-LGBT hate organization by the SPLC.
Why isn't somebody in power screaming from the rooftops that these are the people in the Republican Party? Why won't somebody stick their neck out? Why?
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Ms. Harvey's Mission: America boasts a whopping $23K in revenue. Perhaps that's one reason I've never heard of her before and, now that I have, I won't be adding any to it.
longship
(40,416 posts)And Ms. Harvey may not be at the head of the movement but she is nevertheless indicative of today's Republican Party who are, as a whole, just like her.
We ignore these ripples at our peril. Because the national GOP thinks just like her, only are possibly more circumspect about their rhetoric.
They are all riding in the same clown car.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)madville
(7,397 posts)They like to frame abortion rights as racist because black females have abortions at much higher rates (3x-4x) than Hispanic and white females. They claim it is a modern day African-American genocide or something ridiculous.
The main reason the numbers are disproportionate is the higher rate of teenage pregnancy among AA's. they are far less likely to use birth control and/or condoms as evidenced by the higher rates of STDs among AA teens as well.
Here's an article on the subject:
http://www.bet.com/news/health/2013/04/01/commentary-why-are-black-abortion-rates-so-high.html
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)Grasping at straws is all that argument does. I know a few people who would believe it, but they believe anything they hear on Faux Noise and Rush, so not the brightest group.